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They call me Zarko / Anchor Media Group, Inc., in association with Mimi Demirdjian and Michael Schlee ; written by Mimi Demirdjian and Ron Small ; produced and directed by Ron Small.
LIBRA DVD HD2360.5.U6 T44 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demirdjian, Ghazaros.
- Businesspeople--United States.
- Businesspeople.
- Immigrants--United States.
- Immigrants.
- Armenian Americans--Biography.
- Armenian Americans.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Demirdjian, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (all regions) widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- video file
- DVD video
- region 0
- Summary:
- Born in Bulgaria in 1927, Ghazaros Demirdjian was the son of displaced Armenian immigrants who had escaped the genocide (1915-1923). Ghazaros knew there was a better life out there for him. He loved John Wayne movies and dreamed of moving to America. With a developed sixth sense (which he credits to have learned from Romanian Gypsies) he knew it could be done, and finally embarked on a journey fraught with such peril that only the most determined could have survived. From imprisonment in both Iraq and Iran to the honor killing of a Turkish infidel, to arson in a fight with the mafia, this is the true story of how an Armenian born into abject poverty somehow made it to Hollywood and created a fortune in the American trash business. He achieved the American Dream, his dream, of a successful business, a full table, and a loving family who now bask in the glow of his love and legacy. They couldn't pronounce his name, so they called him Zarko.
- Participant:
- Ghazaros Demirdjian.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 1311289334
- Publisher Number:
- 760137895091
- DEM-001 Demirdjian
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